Re: L1 learning question
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, September 28, 1998, 8:01 |
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Carlos Thompson wrote:
> By the way: What does the apostrophe means in desperta'is/sespierta'is?
> Does Chicanos use the second person plural? I would believe that, as m=
ost
> Spanish dialects from the Americas, Chicanos would use _ustedes_, which
> follow the third person plural.
The apostrophe indicates an acute vowel. Some e-mail programs won't
read symbols like =E1 properly. As for the Chicano -a'is, I was surprise=
d
too. I didn't think they used it at all, but I was just quoting
verbatim.
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